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Sassanian king Nashirván, (A. D. 531-572), visited India to acquire proficiency in the Indian sciences.[1]
Arabian indebtedness to India ignored by the European historians of chemistry.Thomson, Hoefer, Kopp, and Berthelot have done ample justice to the claims of the Arabians as the originators or, at any rate, as the propagators of alchemy in Europe in the middle ages. M. Berthelot, indeed, has recently shown that the ideas and theories, as regards alchemy, humoral pathology and physiology, which were promulgated in the writings of Geber, Rases, Avicenna, Bubacar and others, were essentially Greek in origin, though extended and improved upon by the Arabians. The French savant has, however, presented only one side of the- ↑ ". . . . . que Barzouyèh dans sa jeunesse, avoit déjà fait un premier voyage dans l' Inde, pour y rechercher des substances médicinales et de simples, et que c'était dans ce voyage qu' il avoit acquis la connoissance de la langue et de l'écriture Indiennes . . . . ." ibid, p. 23.
